The Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers’ Christmas sale (Co. Kilkenny) included as lot 1135 A New Almanack for the Year of our Lord, 1666 by Michael Harward, Philomath (“Dublin: Printed by John Crook,... and to be sold by Samuel Dancer Bookseller in Castle-street, 1666”), 8vo, with red and black inking in sheets A-B, interleaved, with about 40 pages containing MS verse transcribed c. 1693–1711; rebound in later full calf with “J. SWIFT.” on the front board and “1666.” on the spine; parts of pages are badly stained and illegible (sold for €6500 to the National Library of Ireland). The present binding indicates a former owner assumed the handwriting was Swift’s, but that possibility was ruled out by Harold Williams, who described the book at length (The Poems of Jonathan Swift, 2nd ed., 1958, III: 1057–63). Using photographs by Andrew Carpenter, who examined the volume for the auction house, James Woolley corrects several errors in Williams’s account, as that section title B8 was the main title, and argues that the book as it stands (A8 B8 C8 [-C8], but with leaves reordered during rebinding) may be lacking more leaves than the missing C8. Regarding the manuscript transcriptions of the twenty or so poems (it was essentially used as a miscellany), Woolley finds that they “were composed from 1674 to 1711” and transcribed, probably from the 1690s, “mostly if not entirely by the same scribe,” likely a Dubliner “of substance.” Williams identifies poems by Rochester, Walter Pope, and others, many treating Catholics, some printed in Poems on the Affairs of State. The latest transcribed, a long poem, involves the Rev. Francis Higgins (1711). Woolley notes that some poems were written in Dublin and shed “an interesting light on Dublin social life and [are] not known from any other early manuscript or printed text.” In addition, the almanac itself, unrecorded in the ESTC, is of great value, being the second earliest known for Dublin (the earlier is dated 1665). The ESTC records Harward as author of one other book, The Herds-Man’s Mate; or, A Guide for Herds-Men (B. Tooke, 1673). Rulon-Miller (St. Paul, MN) has listed a “Manuscript notebook transcribing nearly 120 sermons by early American theologians,” by Michael Metcalf (1674–1736) of Dedham, Massachusetts, mostly from the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries; oblong 12mo, 224 pp. in ink, in cont. full vellum ($10,625). Transcribed or at least annotated with name, date, and subject, are sermons by Henry Flynt of Dorchester, John Williams (“taken captive [by Mohawks] at Derefield,” later writing The Redeemed Captive), and many other New England preachers who came to Dedham, including Increase and Cotton Mather (on August 7 and Sept 4, 1706) and Metcalf’s “cousin,” Joseph Metcalf, presumably that minister from Falmouth (1682–1723). “Nearly 90% of the sermons [101] are by Joseph Belcher,” graduated Harvard 1690, ordained 1693, and resident of Dedham from 1694. The sermons offer “straight-forward Puritan-Calvinistic theology.” Antiquariat Inlibris (Vienna) posted on AbeBooks two MS autograph letters signed by Adam Smith to the first Earl of Shelburne, both reporting the health of the Earl’s son Thomas (referred to as “Mr. Fitzmaurice”), then a lodger being tutored by Smith in Glasgow, one dated March 12, 1760, 1½ pp. of 4to bifolium, beginning “My Lord | It gives me much pleasure”; the second, March 16, 1760, 2½ pp. of 4to bifolium, beginning “My Lord | I think it is my Duty” (c. $81,150 and $118,600, illustrating the first pages). These are nos. 45–46 in Mossner’s edition of Smith’s Correspondence. The autographs show that Mossner has a misreading in transcribing the first and does not record Smith’s deletions in the second. The dealer also notes that of the roughly 174 surviving letters of Smith (almost all in libraries), only eleven predate these. Peter Harrington (London) lists Smith’s copy of Jean André Rouquet’s The Present State of the Arts in England (J. Nourse, 1765), 8vo, in rebacked cont. sprinkled calf with gilt spine and red label, with Smith’s book label—listed in the 1781 inventory of Smith’s library, SC 25—c. $20,765. Among the books listed on AbeBooks with noteworthy manuscript annotations, I note six. First, Keogh’s Books (Stroud, UK) lists Swift’s copy of the first edition of Arbuthnot’s Tables of the Grecian, Roman, and Jewish Measures, Weights, and Coins (for Ralph Smith, n.d. [1705]), ESTC T97250, calling it an oblong 4to: 14 leaves of engraved double-page plates with engraved title and 29 tables, 20 ×12 cm (the leaves folded make it an 8vo in size), in full paneled calf with gilt decoration on the boards’ edges, engraved bookplate of “William Perceval Esq;” on the pastedown (c. $31,150). At top right of the first front endpaper in Swift’s small hand is the inscription: “J. Swift. | Mar. 31. 1713. | The Gift of my most | ingenious and learned | Friend the Author.” On the same page to the left in another hand is the next owner’s: “Feb: 15th. 1745-6 | Thos: Lloyd | pret. 1s: 6d—.” Below this is the additional inscription, “pr. 2s. Chas. Perceval 1758.” Keogh adds, “also signed ‘J. Swift’ on the verso of the title page plate... some figures in the tables have been erased and amended in ink.” Lloyd’s date of February 15 presumably reflects its purchase that day during the sale of Swift’s library, advertised as beginning on February 3; lot 397 of 657 lots, it is recorded as having sold for 1s. 6d. (Harold Williams, Dean Swift’s Library [1932], 35–36). In the Journal to Stella, Swift mentions being with Arbuthnot and Lady Masham on the evening of March 31, 1713. The seller believes the book was acquired at auction by the former owner of Keogh’s. It is listed untraced by D. Passmann and H. Vienken (The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift [2003], 1:75). Amanda Hall (Salisbury) offers a copy of the first edition of The True Scripture Doctrine of the Holy Trinity, the Eucharist, and the Satisfaction made for us by our Lord Jesus Christ. In Three Books... [and the Church of England “Vindicated from the Errors of Dr. Clarke”] (for George Strahan, 1713), by James Knight (1672–1735), 8vo: [2, advt. on verso only], xvi, 180 pp., lacking the half-title, in cont. paneled red morocco, with blindstamps, shelfmarks, and bookplate of the Macclesfields’ South library (c. $1960). The seller notes “There are numerous annotations throughout” in contemporary hand, and the “combination of pedantry and thoughtfulness” suggest “an authorial hand, marking the text for a second edition.” These include “changes to the emphasis or sense of a sentence,” to singular and plural number, to phrasing (as from “Form of Law” to “Rules of Law”) and to the reference numbers. Rulon-Miller lists John Fortescue-Aland’s The Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy, as... regards the English Constitution. Being a Treatise written by Sir John Fortescue, Kt. Lord Chief Justice, and Lord High Chancellor of England, under King Henry VI, from the Bodleian MS collated with three others (W. Bowyer, for E. Parker and T. Ward, 1714); 8vo: [16], lxxxii, [4], 148 [4], with Saxon alphabet on final page, in modern blind-stamped calf ($3125). This copy was “extensively annotated throughout by Welcome Arnold, a well-known merchant and ship owner” in Providence, Rhode Island s(1745–1798). Arnold, though a businessman, was “erudite and studious,” capable of “extensive commentary on English law, politics, and the Saxon language,” often annotating in Old English. He added “a 2-page manuscript index to words in the text... on the final flyleaf.” Peter Harrington lists An Account of Several New Inventions and Improvements now Necessary for England... relating to the Building of our English Shipping,... [with] Proceedings related to the Mill’d Lead-Sheathing, and the Excellency and Cheapness of Mill’d Lead in Preference to Cast Sheet-Lead,... [also including] a Treatise of Naval Philosophy, written by Sir Will. Petty... [all] submitted to . . . Parliament Assembled (for James Atwood and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson, 1691), ESTC R28685, 12mo: [16], cxxv, [19], 132; with the bookplate and stamps of the Earls of Macclesfield’s library at Shirburn Castle (c. $4090). ESTC lists it as by “T.H.” with other works by Thomas Hale, for at its center (beginning on f4) is Hale’s case that new milled lead sheathing from his “Mill’d Lead Company” provides better protection to ships from worms. Harrington notes “the errata has been emended, and ‘T.H.’ at the end of the introductory letter completed in ink to read ‘T. Hale.’... a long manuscript note has been added to p. 33” on the new invention as have remarks on the company on p. 116 with a note directing us to the end of the book “where there is a 16-line MS discussion of various ‘Tryalls’ shewing the great superiority of milled lead scuppers”; these annotations, “almost certainly” by Hale, conclude by reporting “orders given by the Navy Board to Mr. Hales.” John Price in December listed a copy annotated by Dr. Samuel Parr (1747–1825), the “Whig Johnson,” of John Jortin’s Lusus Poetici. Editio Tertia. (“Excudit Gulielmus Bowyer, MDCCXLVIII [1748]”), 4to: [iv], 56, inscribed “S. Parr,” bound in quarter green morocco with green linen boards, with bookplate of Norwich Public Libraries ($1700). Price’s account of Jortin (1698–1770) and Parr treats the learned reputation of both and Parr’s stated debt to Jortin “for rational entertainment.” Also noted is Samuel Johnson’s pleasure in Parr’s conversation (ODNB). Price illustrates Parr’s comments referenced to passages on a dozen pages and written on the final blank, mostly in Latin. (Parenthetically we call attention to Price’s 2020 illustrated PDF of miniature books, under 3” ×3.”)One of the more interesting association copies comes from William Reese (New Haven): a 1732 edition of Samuel Butler’s Hudibras. In Three Parts.... with a New Set of Cuts, Design’d and Engrav’d by Mr. Hogarth (for D. Midwinter and A. Ward, and sixteen others, 1732), 12mo, inscribed on the front flyleaf “The Present of Mr. Jacob Duché Junr. To Francis Hopkinson December 1757”; in rebacked cont. calf, with Hopkinson’s bookplate (engraved by Henry Dawkins), lacking the final four leaves ($7500). This edition, ESTC N17078, paginated [ii] 214, 197–400 [24, contents], was also issued with the imprint “for B. Moote” [sic, for “Motte”] in 1732 and “for Richard Wellington” in 1733; besides the frt. portrait of Butler, it has ten plates by Hogarth (all are in the BL copy of the “Moote” issue; nine are in the ECCO copies of the other issues). Incidentally, though 3000 copies were printed (Bowyer Ledgers #1872), two other editions of Hudibras appeared the same year. Hopkinson (1737–1791), an author, judge, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Duché, his future brother-in-law, had been friends since attending the College of Philadelphia, but the Revolutionary War would divide them despite Duché’s marriage to Elizabeth Hopkinson in 1760. Duché, a minister, was for a time Chaplain to the Continental Congress, but in October 1776 he resigned his position on finding reconciliation with Britain unlikely. Later he moved his family to London, only returning in 1792. Hopkinson, a published poet before the Revolution, attacked the British cause in verses that included “The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat” in Hudibrastics, ridiculing Loyalists like Duché. In Christopher Edwards’s List 78 (Fall 2020) we find the first edition of William King’s The Toast, an Epic Poem in Four Books, printed in London (by a shop using up to four press figures) with the false imprint “Dublin: Printed in the Year MDCCXXXII”; ESTC N13481, Foxon K80, 8vo: A1 B-G8; [ii], 96; the issue with a single prelim (disbound, £2750 [c. $3860]). Edwards notes that it satirizes Frances, Countess of Newburgh, “whose secret marriage to William King’s uncle threatened to deprive him of his Irish inheritance.” Swift described it in a letter to Charles Ford on October 14, 1732, attributing it to “Dr King” in Oxford as “a most bitter Satyr against Sr Tho. Smyth, Ldy Newburg, and Capt Prat,” adding “very malicious and worth reading” (Correspondence, ed. D. Woolley, 3:546). There are two states of the preliminaries, this with the errata on the title-page verso, and another with that verso and the next recto blank and the errata on A2v, Foxon’s K79. As Edwards notes, the precedence of the two issues has been uncertain, but both he and Foxon note that more than a month before Henry Lintot advertised the work (November 20 in the GSJ), Swift to Ford mentioned the arrival of copies in Dublin: “A printer brought it to me, and said a hundred of them were sent to him from Engl[an]d” (3:546–547). Since three of the extant seven copies of the issue with two preliminary leaves are in Ireland, but none of the other issue’s eight copies, Edwards reasons that this was the issue seen by Swift. I would add new evidence for that conclusion. Though Foxon and Edwards do not indicate such, the preliminaries of the two issues have entirely different type-settings (“Poem” is followed by a comma in that with two leaves of prelims but without one in the issue sold by Edwards; the errata for text and notes each are printed in four lines in the former and but three in the latter). The type-setting in the preliminary with two leaves has a different font from that used on the other title page and through the text; moreover, there are at least a dozen pieces of broken type on the first’s title page, arguing that its A2 was printed in Dublin. A close comparison of the typeface of this edition’s title page with the second edition, truly printed in Dublin, proves this to be the case (note, for instance, the “E” in “POEM” with the same deep nick on the right side of the ascender above the middle lateral). Thus, the imprint of the issue with two preliminary leaves is in part true: those leaves were printed in Dublin, and the earlier publication in Dublin was presumably intentional, allowing King to claim the work was first printed there (and Foxon’s ordering is correct). The printer whom Swift mentions was presumably James Carson, for the sole ornament in the octavo printed in Dublin, T62885 (on B1v), is a triangular tailpiece with a figure in a headdress under a canopy flanked by putti, common in Carson’s presswork, such as on the title page of Death; A Poem (“by and for J. Carson & Syl. Pepyat,” 1731). The poet Elkanah Settle is known for having a poem’s title reset with an inscription to a potential patron and then finely bound for presentation. Christopher Edwards’s List 78 offers examples of two other poets reissuing the same text with alternate title pages naming different patrons. The first is a unique copy, unknown to Foxon, of [W. Howard’s] The Happy Government: Or, The Constitution of Great-Britain. Humbly presented to the Right Honourable John Brownlow, Lord Viscount Tyrconnel, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath, and a Member of the Parliament... (“Pr for the Author, 1734”), 4to: π1 A-C2: [ii], 11, [1, blank] (in marble wrappers, £1500 [c. $2105]). This edition’s several issues are recorded by Foxon in H340, identifying not this issue but those dedicated to Hans Sloane, William Bentinck, Duke of Portland, and Richard Coope; Foxon records as H341 a reissue honoring Francis, Duke of Buccleugh dated 1747. ESTC T35982 treats the edition similarly, noting five 1734 states of the title, adding to Foxon those with dedicatees Bishop Edmund Gibson and Samuel Burroughs (the latter is on ECCO and shares much of its title-page setting with the Tyrconnel setting). In addition, ESTC T32837 records at Princeton a 1738 issue with the dedication space left blank to be completed in manuscript. Recipient Hans Sloane was earlier one of several to receive a uniquely dedicated copies of Howard’s The Universal Doom (1732). Another example of a unique title issue is an unrecorded variant of the evangelical poem The Lord’s Day or, the Christian Sabbath. A Sacred Poem. Humbly presented to... the Countess of Huntingdon (“Printed for the Author || M.dcc.xxx”), 4to: 10 pp.; disbound (£1500 [c. $2105]). Foxon L263, L263.5, and L264 record copies with title pages dedicating the same edition, respectively, to John Boulter in 1720 and to Viscount Fermanagh in 1729 and “a different edition” but with the “title in part” sharing type with the last, to Mrs. Brace, also dated 1729. Edwards has illustrated its title page, which has a tailpiece of a putto’s head in a helmet with wings from the side and a three-pointed fleur crest, over a shield with crossed horns. That same ornament appears on the 1729 title pages with dedications to Brace and to Fermanagh, which are different editions. According to Foxon, the copy to Fermanagh shares the setting employed in a 1720 issue dedicated to John Boulter (both are collated π1 A-B2). While this 1720 setting has no cut ornaments, the edition presented to Mrs. Brace, collating A1 B-C2, has on B1 a framed factotum and title-page ornaments belonging to Henry Parker, the printer of Defoe’s Crusoe books. Edwards’s copy is dedicated to Selina Hastings (1707–1791), the philanthropic and pious Countess, and has a different title-page setting than the two 1729 issues (in line 2 of the title, it lacks the colon after “DAY” in the others). Edwards does not indicate if his copy’s text has the 1720 setting reissued for Fermanagh or Parker’s resetting but presumably it has the latter (besides having a factotum, it has twenty lines on p. 9, not twenty-two as in the Fermanagh). Foxon thought the author likely to be the author of such divine poems as On the Nativity of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. A Divine Poem. Humbly Presented to the Lady Sloane (by S. Palmer for the Author, 1717; Foxon O213), an octavo reissued in presentation to Lady Fletcher in 1718 and to Lady Trumbal in 1722 (O214-15). He thought this poet also produced the quartos A Divine Poem on the Creation... Present to the Lady Cowper (for the Author, 1718; Foxon D341) and Faith and Practice... A Sacred Poem... Presented to... the Lady Prichard (by John Cluer, 1717; F39). Because the same reissuing at much the same time was done by Henry Nevil, with several of his also printed by Samuel Palmer, Foxon suggests the author of The Lord’s Day and others mentioned might “possibly” be Nevil. And it might be added that Nevil addressed at least three poems in 1716-1720 to Sloane (N43-45). Edwards disagrees with Foxon about the attribution to Nevil, justly remarking that “all of the poems he attributes to Nevil are secular, with a clear purpose of self-advancement [most concern King and court], whereas the present poet’s intentions are... religious.” Among the unrecorded items on AbeBooks, Roger Middleton (Oxford) offers The Obliging Husband, and Imperious Wife, or the West-Country Clothier undone by a Peacock. With the Pleasant and Comical Humours of honest Humphry his Man Made out in several Witty and Ingenious Dialogues; I. Between Mr. Wilmot, a West-Country Clothier... (“London, Printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch at the Red-Lyon, J. Osborn at the Golden-Ball in Pater-Noster-Row, J. Hodges at the Looking-Glass... J. Clark at the Golden-Ball in Duck-Lane” c. 1735 [but see below]), 12mo: (frt. +) [4] 5-117 [1], “lacking pages 59–62 now supplied in good facsimiles on old paper, bound in when the book was rebound, E11 verso {118} contains publisher adverts, E12 has longitudinal title; bound in full modern calf,” with red morocco spine-label (c. $1100). The unsigned woodcut frontispiece has three stacked images of people outdoors, at a dinner table and, between, a woman writing. Not in the ESTC or WorldCat, which have at least the initial part of the book at the Bodley dated n.s. 1717 and an edition also to p. 117 but without frontispiece for Anne Gifford, 1722 (on ECCO). Middleton dates it c. 1735 supposing Bettesworth “was in partnership with his son-in-law Charles Hitch” beginning then, but that occurred in 1730. I find that Bettesworth & Hitch with Osborn and Hodges advertised this book in a fifth edition on p. [112] of John Hayward’s Hell’s Everlasting Flames Avoided, 1733, T36084. All five publishers at the same addresses in Obliging Husband co-published God’s Wonders in the Great Deep, 4th ed., in 1734, N3042. Poor Man’s Books (Vineland, NJ) illustrates and describes an unrecorded edition of Hugh Owen’s translation of De Imitatione Christii: Pattrwm y Gwir-Gristion neu Ddilyniad Jesu Grist.... Gan Thomas à Kempis. (“Argraphedig yn y Mwythig [a.k.a., Shrewsbury] ac ar werth yno gan Tho: Durston” n.d.), small 8vo: [4] 327 [3] with frt. of the crucifixion and final advt. leaf; rebacked cont. sheep; endpapers with ownership inscriptions 1740–1780 along with MSS of birth dates, etc., in Welsh and English ($399.95). ESTC records two other editions by Durston, both paginated [6], 327 [3]: an undated 12mo of which the ESTC asks “[1760?]” (but Durston’s known Mwythig imprints are 1714–1759) and one dated 1752 and reported as both 8vo and 16mo. Blackwell’s (Oxford) lists an unrecorded edition of the translation of Mme de Grafigny’s Sequel of the Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess [with vignette of two putti in clouds] (“Printed for J. Brindley, Bookseller to his Royal-Highness the Prince of Wales,... MDCCXLIX”), 12mo: pp. [i]-vi [7]-48. It is bound after Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess.... Second Edition. Revised and Corrected by the Translator. To which is now added, The Sequel of the Peruvian Letters (J. Brindley, 1749), in modern calf, rebacked (c. $1720). The second edition has the pagination in the ECCO copy linked to ESTC T118805: 12mo: xii, 259 [1, blank], cclxi–cclxiv, 265–307 [5, contents]), with the Sequel in seven letters (M11/cclxi to O10/307). Blackwell’s also lists an edition of Congreve’s The Double Dealer with the imprint “LONDON: [sic, “ON” in roman] Printed for J. Jennings, in High-Holborn. [short rule] 1743” and a circular woodcut of a flower vase as title-page ornament; 8vo: pp. [viii] 64 (disbound, c. $1032). The verso of the title page, headed “ADVERTISEMENT. | London, April 4. 1743,” lists 36 plays that “are now printing, and will be published (one a Week) in the Order they are number’d” (Double Dealer and Cato are 1 and 2 and Hamlet is 36), priced 3d., but a few will be “on a fine writing paper... for Four-pence Half-penny each.... These Plays may be had,... of the Men who carry News.” Blackwell’s suggests the venture failed, for it cannot find any of these published with a Jennings imprint (nor can I find any other 1740–1745 imprints likely to be in this series). The pricing drastically undercut prices; perhaps the Tonsons and other publishers squashed the pirate. There are no “Jennings” imprints in the ESTC before 1779 (though OCLC has a sole copy of this Jennings edition at Tennessee). One possible candidate for the “J. Jennings” in 1743 is John Jennings, apprenticed to Richard Simpson from 1712–1722 (D. F. McKenzie, Stationers’ Company Apprentices 1701–1800, 319). The edition is a reminder of the many active in the book trades who are unrecorded in ESTC.Christopher Edwards lists on AbeBooks an unrecorded one-page folio broadside of Charles Hanbury Williams’s prose parody Old England’s Te Deum (“Printed by A. More near St. Paul’s,” 1743), satirizing Walpole (as “O” for Earl of Orford), George II and his court (disbound, c. $420)—hitherto known only in a seven-page folio with another bogus imprint (“J. Jolly, near the Great Toy-Shop”) and a broadside “for T. Davis,” all assumed [1743]. Edwards also lists an unrecorded second edition of An Epistle to the Right Honourable William Pultney, [sic] Esq; upon his late Conduct in Publick Affairs (“Printed for B. Dod at the Bible and Key in Ave-Mary-Lane near Stationers-Hall,” 1742), folio: [ii] 14 pp.; disbound (c. $491 [rising with the pound from $452 in July]). Edward notes “this is largely a reimpression from standing type, with the three errata in the first edition corrected”; third impression is also a reimpression notes Foxon (E430), only in the Forster Collection at LVA and not in the ESTC. Every year on AbeBooks one finds prayer books and psalms still unrecorded. Island Books (W. Sussex) lists an edition of The Whole Book of Psalms (“Printed by Tho. Wilmer” for the Company of Stationers, 1720), the Sternhold and Hopkins version, bound after The Book of Common Prayer (by John Baskett, 1719) with frt. and 47 engraved plates; both 12mo; in early nineteenth-century calf (c. $445). Wilmer’s 12mo editions of 1710, 1725, and 1728 are recorded in ESTC, but not one in 1720; it is not a reissue of 1710 as is indicated by the 1720’s having the press figure (1) on A12v and the signature B1 after “reports.” Sam Gatteno (Gross Pointe) offers The Whole Book of Psalms (“by T.H. for the Company of Stationers,” 1701), 8vo: 101 [viii], not among three in 1701 listed by ESTC; bound with The Book of Common Prayer (Cambridge: by John Hayes, 1701), unpaginated, ending on Z4, with 48 plates, T210482; in cont. calf with blind tooling ($2700). For the same price he lists an unrecorded 8vo The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre (“by C. and J. Ackers, for the Company,” 1753), unpaginated, with pages ruled in red; bound with The Book of Common Prayer (Tho. Baskett, 1753), unpaginated, ending on Bb3, T182569; in cont. red morocco. In 1753 the Whole Book was printed in folio in Cambridge by Joseph Bentham and in duodecimo in London by Henry Woodfall. Stuart Bennett’s catalogue in October 2020 featured books by, for, and about women, 1649–1877, most from the early nineteenth century; Bennett in past decades found many rarities in the previous two centuries, but the discovery of such has become very rare, and now he focuses on Austen’s England, where he set his last novel, Lord Moira Echo (2014). The catalogue includes some rare devotional works, for example, Elizabeth Burnet’s third edition of A Method of Devotion: or, Rules for Holy and Devout Living (J. Downing, 1713), ESTC T144632, reset with the same pagination blunder found in the first (1708) and second editions (1709): 8vo: (frt. port. +) xli [vii], 336, 353–395 [1] (rebacked later calf, $100). Here too is Mary Whateley’s first book, Original Poems on Several Occasions, edited by William Shenstone and published by the Dodsleys, 1764, to which E. Carter, M. Delany, and E. Darwin subscribed, along with Whateley’s future husband John Darwell, who took two copies (calf by Philip Dussel, $900). Among the prose narratives is the third issue (that for E. Curll, 1717) of Manley’s Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Manley, 8vo: [ii], iv, 120 [2, key], with frt. and the first state of the key (that with Lord Crafty not identified and Mrs. Settee as “Mrs. P—m”), $600.Note: Assume London for place where none is given. The author thanks for assistance Andrew Carpenter, Henry Gott, Maureen E. Mulvihill, Marie Thursfield, and Alice Meigh of Keogh’s, Books, and Siân Wainwright, and, for additions and corrections, James Woolley.